[OpenAFS] Unknown Gnome/AFS problem

[Douglas E. Engert]

This sounds a lot like this NetBSD problem with Gnome Trash:
http://julipedia.blogspot.com/2006/03/fixing-gnomes-trash-under-netbsd.html

There is a bug report, and a proposed patch, but not for AFS.
Ading AFS could be trivial:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336533

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Franco Milicchio wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm still facing a weird problem with Gnome and OpenAFS. When  
> interacting with the GUI and deleting some items, gnome puts them in  a 
> .Trash directory:
> 
> milicchio:milicchio$ ls -lad .Trash
> drwx------  3 milicchio diaafs 4096 Jul 14 09:13 .Trash/
> 
> Unfortunately this directory is shown *always* empty when opening the  
> trashcan from the Gnome GUI, even if it contains files and  directories, 
> and of course has the right ACLs inherited by the  container volume:
> 
> milicchio:milicchio$ ls -la .Trash
> total 13
> drwx------   3 milicchio diaafs 4096 Jul 14 09:13 ./
> drwxrwxrwx  59 milicchio diaafs 6144 Jul 14 09:22 ../
> drwxr-xr-x   2 milicchio diaafs 2048 Jul  3 11:36 simple_extension/
> -rw-r--r--   1 milicchio diaafs  873 Jul  3 11:30  simple_extension.tar.gz
> 
> milicchio:milicchio$ fs la .Trash
> Access list for .Trash is
> Normal rights:
>   system:backup rl
>   system:administrators rlidwka
>   system:anyuser l
>   milicchio rlidwka
> 
> 
> This bug seems to affect all gnome systems (any distribution) with  
> users under AFS, since local users in /home do not experience any  
> trouble and find their deleted files in the trash.
> 
> Is anyone aware of any workaround? Users keep filling up immediately  
> their quotas...
> 
> 
> PS. Removing gnome is not a workaround :)
> 
> -- 
> Franco Milicchio <milicchio@dia.uniroma3.it>
> 
> The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
> The pessimist fears it is true.      [J. Robert Oppenheimer]
> 
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